#Used games

Tucked away from all these Black Friday madness this week are some excellent used game sales at GameStop and Gamefly. In fact, Gamefly is offering up Nintendo Switch used games at respectable pricing (unlike GameStop who's doing $54.99 on e...

Remember last month's used game promotion from GameStop? The popular sale is back with a vengeance and with plenty more qualifying games. Through most of November and early December, you can now pick up select four used games at GameStop an...

Today is the last day of GameStop's Pro Day sale - which is essentially GameStop's early Black Friday sale for their PowerUp Rewards Pro and Elite Pro members. Before you scoff at the sale, there are actually some pretty decent offerings in...

Feel like reliving the Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 era once more? You're in luck this weekend as GameStop is running a huge "Buy 2, Get 1 Free" pre-owned sale with everything from old pre-owned games such as Goldeneye 007 for the N64 to Unc...

An 11-year-old in Florida got a surprise from GameStop with his used copy of Grand Theft Auto V: a bag of meth.
Luckily, according to a Facebook post, the boy brought the bag to his mother, Kayla McAllister, who then called the police. Tod...

According to a report made by Kantar Worldpanel and picked up by MCV, pre-owned game sales in the UK are up 25% on last year, but the number of people purchasing pre-owned games has not increased.
Last-gen consoles account for almost t...

If you like to thumb through a hoard of fire-sale videogames at the local Walmart, we've got the perfect sale for you. The classic pastime can now be done digitally today at GameFly's new Used Game Blowout Sale. They've just discounted...

GameStop will implement a new trade-in policy starting August 18, simplifying its current program with fewer pricing tiers. The announcement confirms earlier reports.
The values depend on whether customers want cash or in-store credit and w...

Later this month, GameStop will revamp its trade-in program for used games in an attempt to simplify the process, reports Kotaku. Under the new system, there will only be four possible prices paid for games -- instead of up to ten -- which ...

The used games market is one that many big retailers have had their eye on, but few have been able to crack. GameStop is the giant with regard to brick-and-mortar stores, but it's about to get some fierce competition from a likely opponent...

EA is acknowledging that, "there will be a physical business [for games] probably for a long period of time." Finally.
This comes from EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference. "I also think that used games a...

Speaking to the Guardian about Sony's same-old used games policy for the PlayStation 4, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House says that feedback from gamers demanding the current system remain in place was "not just, in my view, the ...

Now that Microsoft has reversed their stance on initiatives restricting used game sales and more potent digital rights management for the Xbox One, has your bloodlust been sated? Does Microsoft still have work to do in convincing you of th...

The Xbox One no longer enforces restrictions on used games, but the debate over console DRM is not over. One lingering question is this -- why are consoles criticized, but PC gets away with it?
One would assume the plentiful answers are ob...

It looks like we're going to do this dance again. So soon. In the wake of Microsoft reversing its Xbox One DRM policies, brave corporate warrior Cliff Bleszinski wasted little time in telling us how this would be a bad thing for the industr...

There are multiple good reasons for trading in a game once you have had enough, but in the eyes of Avalanche Studios founder Christofer Sundberg, length is the determining factor -- titles "have been too short," he told Edge....

Sony created a magic moment this past week at E3, declaring for the world that PS4 would not restrict used games or utilize DRM. Power to the people!
Of course, it can be said Sony didn't actually do anything, yet is being lauded as a hero...

Shortly before the reveal of Xbox One, Electronic Arts finally announced it was scrapping its dreadful Online Pass system, due to "listening to the public." While the Xbox One's DRM-fueled strategy renders the Online Pass obsolete, EA is ad...

[Update: Sony has outright confirmed my initial interpretation. As reported by GameFront, Sony has stated that Tretton's use of the term "DRM" referred only to playing used games online. Essentially, they're talking about letting publishers...

Riding high off its announcement that the PlayStation 4 will have no DRM, no anti-used game policy, and will support game ownership, Sony has released a video detailing its incredibly deep and nuanced system for sharing physical copies of ...

Sony confirmed that they won't be putting any restrictions on used games. They stated that they believe people have the right to do what they want with the games they buy. Gamers will be able to sell, trade, lend, and rent video games as mu...

Following this morning's eventful Microsoft conference, Microsoft president of interactive entertainment, Don Mattrick, stepped to the side to speak with BBC News on all things Xbox One. He tried to calm our nerves regarding the consoles ma...

Well, Microsoft went and did it. It took the step publishers have fantasized over for years, and destroyed the concept of videogame ownership.
The Xbox One will sell you games, but it keeps what it sells, while controlling and overseeing y...

Microsoft finally clarified much of its policy on used games and online restrictions with the Xbox One, and the news is grim for those who actually believe in consumer rights. With its new system, Microsoft will take the final step in strip...